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Autobiographical Novel and Metafiction: Usages and Manners of Writing in Teresa de la Parra’s Work
Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2017 This article examines the reasons why Ifigenia and Las memorias de Mamá Blanca by Teresa de la Parra must be considered autobiographical novels. The essay reflects upon the peculiar relationship between autobiographical novel and writing practices ...
Rafael Climent-Espino
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Roll a Hard Six: Losing Your Noodle in Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing [PDF]
, 2015 Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing is a convoluted representation of the mentallyunstable mind existing as a series of six characters that are at once separate and conjoined: the horrors and traumatic events of the narrative past dismantle the ...
Guenther, Shawna
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Anita Brookner’s Autobiographical Novels: Towards a Relational Subject
Études britanniques contemporaines, 2004 Les romans autobiographiques d’Anita Brookner (vingt-et-un à ce jour) ont trop souvent été considérés comme des romans de gare anti-féministes, situés dans la lignée de la littérature réaliste et du roman psychologique anglais. Cet article s’attache à démontrer que ces romans, qui posent la question éthique ‘Comment devrait-on vivre une vie humaine ...
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Alien and Adrift: The Diasporic Consciousness in V.S. Naipaul’s 'Half a Life' and J.M. Coetzee's 'Youth' [PDF]
, 2003 This article as also published in 'The Regenerative Spirit' ed. Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex and Sue Hosking. Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2003, 118-125.In this paper, I look at some similarities in sensibility of Naipaul and Coetzee, one clearly a diasporic ...
Dooley, Gillian Mary
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III +2 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Det individuella möter det kollektiva. Självbiografiskt stoff i barndomsskildringar från det svenska folkhemmet [PDF]
, 2011 The subject of the article are autobiographical threads present in Swedish stories about childhood and adolescence published after 1986 that form part of the narrative pertaining to the origins, evolution and decline of the Swedish welfare state ...
Żmuda-Trzebiatowska, Magdalena
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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